Brian Hoyer shares best advice he's received

Nina Mandell

USA TODAY Sports

In nine seasons in the NFL, Brian Hoyer's experienced - like many veterans - a roller coaster of a journey. Heading into the 2017 season, he's on his sixth team and in a conversation with MMQB's Peter King explained how he's managed to overcome the rough playoff losses, the bad teams and continue his career.

"For me, I have handled a lot of adversity," Hoyer said in a quiet room under Levi's Stadium. "Not getting drafted, getting cut, having a bad playoff game. I think you respond the same way you do always: You pick yourself back up. My dad always used to tell me growing up, when it was a big deal to lose a baseball game, the sun is going to come up tomorrow. So that night after the loss to the Chiefs, the sun came up the next day. Then I ended up in Chicago. I think I played really well.

"There is a way to go on this roller coaster of the NFL and deal with the highs and deal with the lows and try to stay right in the middle. It's okay to be upset or hurt and then pick yourself back up and attack. What else are you going to do? As I got further and further away from that playoff game, I realized it was just an anomaly. I never had a game in my entire life that I played that bad. But it was just one day. One day. And I was not going to let that day define me as a player or as a person."

Hoyer signed with the 49ers last March to replace Colin Kaepernick. Earlier this summer, his teammate Joe Staley had this to say about how the QB's stayed in the league for so long:

"He's very, very competitive, one of the most competitive people I've been around," Staley said. "I always pride myself on being the most competitive person. But he's up there. He's insatiable. He wants to win at everything he does. That's a great quality to have in a teammate."